US House has no members, no rules as speaker race drags on
As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no members in the U.S. House of Representatives — only members-elect
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Times Square knife attack suspect wanted to kill uniformed officers and ‘carry out jihad,’ prosecutors say
19-year-old suspect allegedly yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ before charging at NYPD officers several blocks from New Year’s Eve celebrations
‘Best season of CSPAN … ever’: Twitter has a field day with House GOP’s speaker vote debacle
Even Wikipedia got in on the action
Jill Biden to have lesion removed from above right eye
Jill Biden will undergo a medical procedure next week to remove a small lesion from above her right eye that was discovered during a routine skin cancer screening
Number of populist world leaders at 20-year low
After Bolsonaro’s defeat and Duterte’s departure, 1.7bn people are now living under populist rule, report saysThe number of populist leaders around the world has fallen to a 20-year low after a series of victories for progressives and centrists over th…
Ex-Bolivia official receives stiff jail sentence for bribes
A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country’s government
Las Vegas circus company buys tiny California desert town for $2.75m
Spiegelworld performers will go to Nipton ‘to dream, create and undertake unfettered artistic experimentation’
Bolivia: Spanish, Chilean lawmakers meddled in local affairs
A Spanish lawmaker says he was formally kicked out of Bolivia as he was getting ready to leave the South American country after he visited to demand the release of opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho
‘I’m completely unprotected’: Teachers say Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act makes it impossible to talk about race
Law prevents teaching about concepts like colourblind racism
AOC fires back after GOP Rep Kat Cammack accuses Democrats of getting drunk during speaker debacle: ‘If only!’
Rep Cammack’s speech fails to rally Republicans around Kevin McCarthy